Prostitutes and beggars flooding London ahead of 2012 Olympics

Coachloads of migrants are dodging border controls and flooding London with beggars, pickpockets and prostitutes ahead of the Olympics, officials have warned.

Prostitutes and beggars are being transported into London (Picture: Mark Richards)

An ‘utterly unprecedented’ number of eastern Europeans are being transported into the country with instructions to work a pre-allocated pitch.

It is thought the largely Romanian groups are being lured to the capital by an organised crime ring on the ‘deluded belief’ London can offer a better future.

They soon end up jobless and living on the streets.

‘The reality is that coach transport into London represents an immigration sieve,’ Westminster councillor Nickie Aiken said. ‘There are no effective controls on those coming in and we are paying the price with an influx of rough sleepers.’

Some are understood to have arrived with Google printouts of Marble Arch.

Up to 60 people a night have been found to be sleeping rough near the monument, turning it ‘into an impromptu campsite 94 days before the Games’.

About 50 women were shipped into the Sussex Gardens area of west London last weekend, while high-class prostitutes are thought to be working outside the Cumberland Hotel.

Westminster council added that ‘rough sleeping in London is not a soft option’.